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https://en.hesperian.org/hhg/Helping_Children_Who_Are_Blind

I added an image of my barcode to a location based reminder, so it pops up in a notification when I go to my local library.

Free version is 7 minutes, but in-app purchase eliminates 3 of those minutes?

No. See MLbase http://mlbase.org

Would be more useful to hear a retrospective after six months.

Options for home broadband have improved, but cellular data speeds are low and free wifi is uncommon.

This happened to me twice with Uber black and that was enough to abandon the service. Weird that I've not observed this behavior among Lyft drivers (who I'd expect to be part timing it).

Keep an eye on this pull request: https://github.com/p-e-w/finalterm/pull/130

List of countries here: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2425436,00.asp

Depending on code, this may be illegal.

You can use a Safari bookmarklet to open the current page in 1Password app, to minimize the disruption in your workflow, see http://www.macstories.net/links/1password-4-1/

Not every product that loses money qualifies as a loss leader.

I didn't see sparse vector support. Assuming I didn't just overlook it, is it on the roadmap?

So these are people who live outside of the United States that describe their nationality as "American"? Do any of them live in countries that actually have "America" in the name?

If someone is able to purchase food at a supermarket does it follow that this same individual cannot also have difficulty understanding a hierarchical filesystem?

Yes, this on the JVM. No, that was not the issue.

Compared to a Bitmapped Vector Trie.

If you don't want to watch the video, a version of this talk was also given at Strange Loop, the slides for that one are available online: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Functional-Data-Structure...

"This is a very nice theoretically clean and powerful sequential data structure, but in practice it is very very very very very very very very very very very slow... very very slow. No one uses finger trees because they're so slow." -Daniel Spiewak

From his 2011 NEScala talk on functional data structures, covering practical considerations like locality of references and caching. Available on vimeo http://vimeo.com/20262239

Can you link to sources on instances of special ops using this tainted meat tactic?

How will folks resist the urge to pee on the QR code?

Mountain Lion

In Scala 2.7 the signature for map, defined in Iterable[+A], was def map[B](f : (A) => B) : Iterable[B]

That seems fairly close to the Haskell signature, although somewhat less readable. However, in Scala 2.8, things got more complicated with the addition of the implicit. Consider two functions that I might apply to a collection of integers:

Set(1,2,3,4).map{ _2 } // Set[Int] = Set(2, 4, 6, 8)

Set(1,2,3,4).map{ _.toString } // Set[String] = Set(1, 2, 3, 4)

Nothing surprising here, we provide a method A->B and use it to map from Set[A] -> Set[B] Now lets use the optimized BitSet collection, which efficiently stores integers:

BitSet(1,2,3,4).map{ _2 } // BitSet = BitSet(2, 4, 6, 8)

BitSet(1,2,3,4).map{ _.toString } // Set[String] = Set(2, 4, 3, 1)

Notice that the collection type is BitSet for the function with return type of Int, but plain Set for the function with return type of String. This functionality is brought to you through the implicit parameter.

I'm not sure your realization brought you closer to the truth. Yes, Palantir issued some denials, but you'd be better off reading the emails...

http://politics.salon.com/2011/02/15/palantir/

I enjoyed the part where Phil provides us with the quote ("Some even say the Web is ‘dead meat’.") even though Joe Hewitt never said that, and that wasn't what he argued in his piece.

When you did the restore, was all saved data from every app also restored? For example, progress on Angry Birds?

http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/2432/how-to-backu...

I think Address Book also supports this.

His anecdote about Macintosh repair costs is excellent. Case closed, Californians, you should have gotten Dells.

That's also why they're never going to support HTML5, client-side storage, or geo-location in Mobile Safari.

Although most people who use these common programs have to customize them extensively. Using emacs without my .emacs file can be as disorienting as using another editor.

Not sure if you're thinking of TextMate or TextWrangler. TextWrangler does have a Mac-like UI and uses Apple-style keyboard shortcuts. TextMate's UI is not particularly Mac-like, it exposes shell commands quite directly, and most of the macros are shell/ruby/etc scripts.

To illustrate the difference, TextWrangler has a menu command to sort the current document, and a menu command to remove duplicate lines. TextMate has "Filter Through Command" which lets you apply arbitrary command like "sort | uniq" to the current document.

There is a free 30 day of demo of TextMate. Why not try it and then ask nomad whether it's worth it? The relevant thing is what works best for you - if you are a programmer then the price of any of these is inconsequential (yes, even BBEdit) given how much you will be using it. On the Mac, more so than on other platforms, you will find that shareware apps are frequently best-of-breed.